Dragon 334, Malhavoc's Surprise = Ptolus

[Mighty Veil]

Maybe he's changing his name to Monty Haul?

LOL
Yeah I could see it now..
Monte Haul Present: Dragons And Dungeons (director's super cool more awesome cut)
"You must get tired of playing boring weak WotC Wizards, right? Boring D&D Elves who have to use that awful uncool anti-gamerz fan, Karl Rove written Listen skill, right!? Monte Haul presents the most original and fan friendly game Ever!! DRAGONS AND DUNGEONS!!!!
Imagine playing a wizard with d10 hit dice and three times the spells! Elves on steroids! SUPER COOL! Fan friendly non evil big business-like ideas like skills like Listen AND Spot. They've been merged with Craft (except Craft Alchemy which is super fan friendly cool), Jump, Knowledge History to create the super cool new skill: Ultimate Kewl Skill! Ever wanted to play the Superfriends? Now you can with new races like: Batfolk, because BatMEN would be uncool (regular humans who dress up in super cool costume), and Jan and Jen Folk (you get to play twins who can polymorph into any animal and ice bridge! SUPER COOL FAN FRIENDLY FUN!!). PDF version out next month for a friendly $49.34 (not even that awful big business Wal-mart has such awesome cool prices!). Print version 6 months later for only 49.43! Ultimate cool it's Dragons and Dungeons! 16 races. 29 classes! 567 prestige classes. And... 7 Advanced Ultimate Cool Classes!! What are those?? Buy the book, I wrote it!"

sorry, couldn't resist ;-)

 

[Ringmereth]

It's been a long while since I've had to play the ignorant newb and interrupt a threadful of in-jokes... but what's with the 'Orc and Pie' references?

Anyway, if Monte's doing something new, big, revolutionary, earth-shaking, and all that, I'd hope for an Epic redesign. A Planescape campaign setting conversion would be cool and all, but with Eberron, the market probably doesn't need another 3.x CS, and a really good Epic handbook would be welcomed as more people do Epic campaigns and realize the enormous problems (Epic Spellcasting, for one) of the current rules.

 

[Vocenoctum]

It's been a long while since I've had to play the ignorant newb and interrupt a threadful of in-jokes... but what's with the 'Orc and Pie' references?

Worlds Shortest Adventure, some years ago Monte posted it to his site. You open the door, there's an orc, with a pie...

Anyway, it was funny at first, but has since been run into the ground. I'd say it jumped the shark, but saying jumped the shark has jumped the shark...

I'm sure it's on Montecook.com somewhere.

 

[LightPhoenix]

D20 Pants-less.

 

[Prince of Happiness]

Arcana DEVO-lved, with featuring new feats such as: Uncontrollable Urge, and Whip It; PC races such as Mongoloids, Beautiful Mutants, and Spudboys; and new prestige classes such as Smart Patroller! Are you through being cool and wish to dare the Gates of Steel?

 

[Ringmereth]

I get it now (and can see why it's 'jumped the shark'). Thanks.

 

[Campbell]

D20 Pants-less.

Who would stat out the Yugoloths?

 

[A'koss]

Hey, if Martha can do it...

Monte Cooking?

 

[Krug]

True d4?

 

[arscott]

Maybe he's changing his name to Monty Haul?

But the term itself comes from the name of an old game show host (who gave away whatever fabulous prize that was behind door number 3. Hence the name.)

Naming yourself after a play style that was named after someone else is a bit over the top (and not quite original enough for monte.)